He's right that Obama is twice the intellectual that Kennedy, and, I suspect right that Obama is too delicate.
On the idea that he won't be reelected. I don't think that's likely, yet.
He also said Obama didn't have Kennedy's naval experience and thus doesn't know what it's like to have the enemy's anger directed at you and generals lying to you.
But I guess Obama must know that the military commanders are not all in agreement and not all to be trusted.
The real issue for Obama's success is whether he can get out from under the barrage he's under and step out in front as the leader.
That brings to mind another point. When I see Obama shrugging off the lies that the right is spreading, it is sufficient for me. But Vidal may be right that Obama is overestimating his audience. Although the constant fear angle has made a lot of Americans a little cynical of the kind of drama that the right is promoting, it seems to have an effect on stalling the Democrats on anything close to a public option. So maybe Obama should have been treating the congress more like the easily intimidated benefactors of coroporate patrons that they are.
Hopefully, when the bases we have all over the world start closing down, and we start becoming a country only capable of high-tech and tourism, the Rush Limbaughs and Cheney's will be relegated to minority fascist groups, or all emigrate to the military superpower.
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